Top 10 Home Depot SECRETS Every Dad Should Know | Dad Deals
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2024
- Save a bunch of money at The Home Depot with my 10 favorite shopping secrets I discovered through years of shopping and interviews with both former and current employees! Everyone knows Home Depot is the place for home improvement but it can also be a great place to find bargains and save a bunch of money!
I've been shopping at Home Depot for years and these home depot secrets are some of the best home depot tips and tricks that I know.
In this video, Dad Deals is showing you shopping secrets and home depot hacks that allow you to save big at the home depot locally or home depot online. Not many people know the home depot coupons are not the only ways to get best home depot deals! This video has tips whether it's your first time DIY shopping at home depot or you're a professional contractor.
If there are any secrets you know that I left out of this video, let me know in the comments below!
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Another tip for rental. If you rent the day before a holiday when HD is closed, you get that day for free.
Better yet for any other day, if you rent a tool in the evening when the store is no longer open for at least 4 hours past the time you rent the tool, you get it until the next morning for the 4-hour price.
@@user-sm6lt9mf9tGreat for remodeling at midnight 😂😂😂
Home Depot is open seven days a week here in New England
@@scotsmanofnewengland7713 Xmas and Thanksgiving they are closed.
Used to work at Home Depot. We had ripped bags of mulch and rocks in garden and concrete mix inside. Also, any normal employee has up to $50 they can mark off every shift with putting the customer first. So for instance let's say you wanted to buy 15 feet of Romax cable but they were all out of that size you could get a 25 foot Roll for the same price as 15 feet and just ask them to mark it down and they almost always will without even having to talk to a manager. Department heads could write off $100, ASM/GM for $200 or more. This may have changed as this was more than a decade ago but rather than driving to a second Home Depot for a product, see if you can get a bigger/better one for the same price as the smaller/cheaper one first
Not anymore!! Stopped when covid hit
Really I couldn’t even get them to use my pro credit rewards on Christmas decorations. They said they were already half off too bad. And then they returned the plumbing item which was a hose for a refrigerator for $25 to an account that no longer exist. I tried to explain this, but they said take it up with the 800 number. It used to be my favorite toy store but you know their customer service is really gone downhill.
I'm that guy that loads 1000lbs on a cart and fights it to the register and through the parking lot 😅. Great tip 👍
I miss the hotdog and bratwurst stand they used to feature.
The Lowe's used to do that too. Miss those.
Mine still has it.
They used to have Polish dogs in Texas
I bought some really large (24x48) floor tile that was displayed as a new item for $5.99/sq ft. Two months later it had been reduced to - wait for it - $0.59/sq ft. Yes, 90% off. Apparently HD decided that it wasn't generating enough sales and they wanted it gone. I asked if I could get a price match on the tile already purchased, and they agreed! Best deal I ever got there. Point being: watch for price reductions on stuff you recently bought.
Pro tip for getting assistance. If you need something from high on a shelf, go find one of their "aircraft loading stairs" and wheel it over. Guaranteed they'll coming running out of the woodwork, fearing that a lawsuit is about to happen, lecturing you about how dangerous it is. One way or the other, objective accomplished.
I’ve called the store before while waiting at the paint desk
I usually just find a long pipe or piece of wood and knock the thing off the higher shelf! Of course, it has to lightweight and not breakable, but for small things it works!
Everytime.
“Can you please unlock the paint cage?”
Pages…
Pages…
Goes on break…
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Find stairs, place hands on sta..”SIR YOU ARE IN DANGER OF IMMINENT DEATH. Please ask for help”
Yes at times it's like pulling teeth to get someone to actually help or answer a question for you! Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands I guess!😂
I had an employee catch me basically climbing the racks to get a box off the top shelf. He just gave me the "I don't make enough to even care" look and walked away smiling
I bought a floor display dyson vacuum a while back. They had it nearly half off for being a display model and I was able to stack a military discount on top of it. Always check to see what they have for display models on sale.
Pretty brave with those fingers and that hammer swinging! LOL.
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My son is 17 but he loved the workshops when he was a little guy. That part of the video brought back good memories. We still have the patches.
Cull lumber is most locations is also denoted by a line of purple spray paint on the board
I rented a small compressor to air up a small inflatable pool, and returned it after an hour and a half, and the employee cancelled my charge! She said it was FREE because I didn’t have it long.
Another tip: contractor type orders (will calls) are available to any customer. If you want to get a sale price but can't take the item(s) home the same day (maybe you don't have time or need to wait for a friend to be available to help you drive it home), or if you just want someone else to pick then item(s) from the shelf for you (not advised for lumber though if you want to ensure straight boards), then place an order with the pro desk or customer service, pay for it, and you can pick up the items another day.
As to the tool rental maintenance, I rented a small electric chainsaw from HD and was a little shocked to learn that for liability reasons they replace the chain after each rental. At least that's what they said.
And yes, no matter what I'm in for, I will always go by the clearance sections. But I do have to say that at one local HD, not everything on the clearance shelf is at a clearance price so look carefully.
Old tool rental employee. Can confirm we replace the chain each rental.
I always frequented the cull lumber cart at my HD but it disappeared a year or so ago. I just so happened to be there when an employee was cutting some of it into smaller pieces and asked about it. He said they no longer sold it but destroyed it. I asked if I could buy some and he got a manager who confirmed that it was going in the trash but let me have some free. Haven’t seen any since, but glad to hear that other stores still do it. Thanks for your great vids!
Home Depot vid with Lowe’s kids footage… sneaky sneaky…. And we like it!
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That's because this particular HD has a Lowes directly across the street...It's super easy to be an ORANGE and BLUE shopper there. In fact, it's actually much more convenient to enter and leave the Lowes than HD...It's almost like the local planners gave Lowes preferential treatment with the road designs...Which is really not surprising considering the city...
Look at the sku numbers on the tools on display. Look at the same tool in the overhead bin, don’t know if it is still done but to get it out of inventory it mat be sold for as little as $0.01. I have purchased a couple of framing nail guns in the past for $0.01.
You can use a cut calculator to create a diagram and get the most out of the wood. If you print it out you can just hand it to the guy to make the cuts. Great for building cabinets.
I used to work for HD tool rental. This is a high profit dept. So if you have any issues with your rental, as long as we believe you, we will make it right. Tool didn't act right, and you had to make a special trip back? We'll give you a new tool and reduce the rent by half.
But don't lie to us. We are very good BS detectors.
thanks for sharing!
I was at Home Depot in Klamath, Oregon, waiting for some one. As I stood there I watched someone pulling all the nice plants off the shelves and putting them into a large shopping cart. These were not the cheap plants, these all had a price tag of $29.95 or more. I asked what she was doing. She told me when they get a new shipment in all the current stock was written off as a loss and thrown away. I suggested they would make a beautiful gift for people in nursing homes, or they could be donated to the local garden club as a fund raiser. I was then told if I wanted them, after the store was closed I could get them out of the dumpster behind the store. I would have if I did not live about 50 miles away. Seems like such a sad waste.
Best Dad tip i can give is F Home depot and Lowes. Buy locally and from supply houses! Home depot is charging almost $20 for ONE steel stud! I buy them locally by the bundle for 1/2 that price and sit in my truck as they load them up for me
Not sure if this is available in all stores, but if you bring your own bucket/ container, they will give you the broken ready mix concrete bags.
You forgot one which is... "Dont be a douche." I had a customer come in and she was very abbusive because she could not get a custom door designed and installed in less than a week. As if her poor planning was my fault. She bought a really nice double door which ended up being about 5K. Somehow I forgot to tell her that the company she was ordering from had a 30% off sale starting in three days. Oh well... she WAS in a hurry.
We call that the "a**hole tax".
Oh my that was mean 😂😂😂
Grow up
@@hankd18 Why? Was it your wife?
Touché - agree. No need to be a jerk to the employees. Customers get what they deserve with that type of behavior.
Cull lumber is delivered by the semi load to my local home depot in banded stacks ready for the fork lift.
Def. agree with the cull lumber. I always check that out when I'm at HD with my truck. I've saved thousands over the years.
I am working at a home depot in Canada, and I can tell you things that happen.
Monthly write offs, if the item has not sold during the markdown period, then we just write it off and dumpster. I usually will take the time out of the packaging before tossing it, making sure that the pieces are all separated, sometimes the items are sealed and brand new, some are expensive.
Online orders returned, meaning the item does not sell in the store but must be ordered online. Sometimes the customer returns it for whatever reason, still new, it is now marked down at various percentage off depending on the item. I have seen regular $1000.00 and we sell it off at 50% off.
Regarding having Home Depot cutting your wood: Always have a tape measure with you and check each and every piece for size. I have had two occasions where the dimensions were off up to 1/2" and required re-cutting.
They usually have a sign that states the cuts are not "finish" cuts. If you give them exact measurements, and they cut exactly to those dimensions, you got lucky, so don't assume that will be the case.
Edit: My local HD doesn't even offer cutting anymore,
Yeah, be prepared to cut it again when you get home and hopefully you don't mind the waste created. This is why I own a truck. 😉
Home Depot does not do precision cuts. They cut the lumber so that it can fit in your vehicle so that you can get it home to cut it precisely how you want it. Remember you are on American, not on AmeriKant
Glad to know I am not the only one who is compelled to look over the clearance end cap.
As for the cuts, they have started to charge now. Unless I am confusing it with Lowe's.
I built a simple entertainment center from 2 sheets of 3/4" plywood in 36 hours before I deployed.
I never finished it. So it was rough and caught on everything!
wow mine still has free cuts
@@DadDeals Hence my question. We both go to the same store. Tintern Ln, Chesapeake. Now it has been a bit since I asked them to cut for me. Maybe they went back to it.
From the condition of a lot of their lumber they have in stock, It needs to be reduced as soon as it enters the building! I'm not a perfectionist but have spent a lot of extra time sorting through all the crap lumber they have on the shelves!
Garden center at one of our local HDs has pallets of open/torn bag garden products (soils/sand/stone/mulch) that are spray painted with purple at a deep discount. It's an all-or-nothing deal so you have to buy the whole pallet.
great tip 👍🏼
Good info. TYFS. They will also cut tile for you.
I was a MET associate for years and you would not believe how many good items get thrown into the dumpster daily. After those marked down items are not sold, dumpster time. Dented or damaged appliances etc, dumpster. Garden plants are recycled out weekly, dumpster. When new items come in to replace older model items, dumpster. I recall seeing a load of new rakes come in one spring and the only difference to the old rakes they were replacing was the color of the handle, dumpster.
It’s not sold in pallets?
@@HelloICyou As a rule yes and then actioned off along with returns..
@@onazram1 No, straight to the dumpster. I work at HD. Its insane the amount of things that get thrown out. And most often there is nothing wrong with them at all.
@@Pepeekeo808 I had a tenant who sold tools online, he asked me one day if I had room to temporarily store a Lot he one at action. When it came in it was 50 pallets full of Home Depot tools that were returns and defects. Ended up he had to move to another state quickly do to his wife leaving him with his kids and I ended up with all of it in trade for a couple months rent.
All of The Home Depot’s in my area have trash compactors that are loaded from inside the store. I’ve never seen any dumpsters outside.
All the depots near me got rid of their cull bin. I got several 4' lengths of trex decking for like a dollar once. Great for going underneath outdoor projects!
Be gracious to the staff. You gets more ants with honey than you gets with vinegar.
You sound just like Chrisfix!!
Great video, from one dad to another.
One bit of caution with HD (and probably Lowes as well) is if you need something loaded with a forklift - expect to wait, sometimes for quite a while. They're fairly unorganized in this respect and I think only one time out of ten was "the guy" available, not at lunch, not on break, not loading someone else, isn't out sick, hadn't misplaced the keys, etc, etc. Just be patient.
Used to be an order picker for home depot. They usually have a couple people trained on reach truck (inside forklift) from different departments and might have the lumber and seaonal person trained on the sit down forklift, but otherwise the picker is the primary equipment operator on duty (trained on all material handling equipment). I had some nights I would have 4 or 5 associates asking me at once to help a customer so I had to just go in order (all while still trying to pick my orders for the night).
If you need something pulled down from the shelves, do the workers a favor and try to see if it is on a pallet nearby somewhere. More people tend to have forklift training than order picker training (to pull an individual box off the shelf from up high that is to heavy to carry).
I can't unheard the easter egg opening from a couple videos ago... lol
I've always wanted to buy a used hd rental truck. The superduty with the metal flatbed. Do they go to auction. Whereabouts would I need to look for those?
3:40 the video talks about plywood but shows sheetrock.😅😂🤣😂😅
Good stuff. Thank you
You didn't miss anything everything is good awesome video Thank you for the video
Anything with a sale price on it you can usually get a discount on top of the listed price. They are trying to get rid of those as fast as they can. Ask an associate if its alot of stuff ask for a manager and you can haggle an even better deal.
We use the paint for a base coat. Color if even close to topcoat is fine.
Make certain to watch employees who cut wood or glass to your specs as some can't read fractions.
OMG.. he's talking about me. I'm that schlep pulling a 20 bag cart of mulch around the store... 🤪
😂 why do you do that?
@@DadDeals Because I never watched your Dad Deals before... and apparently I am a sucker for pain. 😁
😎 glad i could help!
To further unwrap tip #1, go in, order some pain, whatever you want, and don't pick it up. Have a friend go in later and pick it up at the discounted price . You get your paint you wanted at a discount. After 3 years the employees figured it out, so I go to another store, waiting for the employee at original store to forget me
I can tell you from being a home Depot employee years ago any employee even new hires can give up to a 50 $ discount to anyone for any object. Within reason.
My top Home Depot secret is that I shop at Lowes, so my money doesn't end up funding naked men parades.
If your THD is near a menards, you can enter your receipt number online when Menards is doing their 11% off sales. THD will send you a gift card for the rebate.
wow, that’s awesome
Home Depot will also price match Amazon not just other box stores.
but the one in colma ca has ben broken for 2 years the saw.
Are you CHRIS FIX?
Note: free cuts are about 1-2” from the dimension you actually request.
My free cuts are as close to exact as one would expect, within an eighth. Probably just depends on the employee and how nice you are to them in the first place!
Culled lumber doesn't exist in my area any more. When I asked managers about it, they said it was a mandate sent down from corporate that all culled lumber must go into the compactor and cannot be given away. I was given two different reasons - one was that people would use a receipt for purchased lumber to return the culled lumber for a refund, and the second was that everything thrown in the compactor was a tax write off as a business loss.
Both are true.
What a waste of resources. Just think if an sharp entrepreneur cut a deal with these big box stores like Crazy Hot Deals did with Amazon for their cull lumber. 🤔
I bought a bag of Ryobi cordless tools, on sale for $199 and got a free cordless miter saw!
Pro tip!! If you buy tools from Home Depot or any big Box company, ya just got Harbor Frieght wrapped in a bought up. Trade mark Name built in the same Asian Factory. And ya just put another U.S. employee outta Ridgid, or Milwaulkee factory in the U.S. applying for work at HD, HF, or any other low wage job they can find. Have a good day.
If a veteran, sign for discount.
They won’t give you a discount on certain items and when I buy things at Lowe’s I have always get the discount on the things I need.
@@scotsmanofnewengland7713Lowe’s also won’t give you discounts on certain items. From the Lowe’s FAQ section: “It can’t be used on any sale item or with any other discount (such as, but not limited to, Lowest Price Guarantee, Lowe’s Credit 5% Off Every Day discount, volume or special pricing programs, and manager discretion price adjustments). It can’t be applied to major appliances (including related accessories and parts), commodities (such as, but not limited to, electrical cable, electrical wire, dimensional lumber, plywood and OSB), gift cards, previous purchases, fees, installations (sold separately or as part of a bundle comprising both product and services) or any other services (such as, but not limited to, rentals, labor, delivery, shipping, extended protection plans).”
You just need to show a military ID and they will honor the discount 10 %
@@scotsmanofnewengland7713What items were they not giving the veteran discount on ?
@@rileypup5959 I needed some wood and wasn’t given the discount and also here in New England they won’t give you a discount on wood pellets for my pellet stove. Some top brand plumbing supplies also.
Registration fpr free kids craft varies, I used to gp tp 2 different stores. One doesn't care if you register, the other were very serious about it
3:07 I don't know if there's a new policy or my store and it makes sense I guess that they won't cut pressure treated wood cuz it has chemicals that release in the air when cut I got to try the other store see if they will let me cut it
They can be sneaky. I went in for a 10' piece of 2" PVC pipe. There were none on the rack.
But close by they had pre-cut PVC lengths in 5' sections. The pre-cuts were 90% (each) of the price of the full size ones.
Just priced garage doors 2, They were Cheaper to have them installed by a Contractor then to purchase and install myself fro Home Depot.
Here’s my tip never order lumber you can’t see they delivered 4 x 4 x 10 post that were half there but they buried him in the stack so I couldn’t see him until I unpacked it then they wouldn’t take them back. it’s hard to erect something when you only have a half a post to do it on.
Lowe’s has always given a 10% Veteran’s Discount - Home Depot Was Losing Out & Begrudgingly Added This. ✌️
I do the oops paint for my bee hives, I bought used tools… then sold for a profit 😂
Excellent Smithers.
I’ve been going to two different Home Depot’s for over 30 years, and have never seen a clearance rack in either store. And I can tell you where everything is in each store.
I heard about a guy that worked for HD about 20 years ago when some of them were open 24 hrs. He'd have a friend come in and get 5 gallons of custom paint mixed which he'd refuse. Right to the oops rack. The guy would dump all the paint down the slop sink, line the bucket with a plastic bag and fill it with whatever tools would fit and call his friend to come in and buy the bucket in the morning. Might be a rumor.
They will also cut that white wire shelving for you. If you go in with your measurements and the number of shelves you want to install in your closet or pantry, they'll help. (You're not allowed to cut it yourself though. Not sure I want to share how I learned that, but I mean, if they're going to leave power tools just laying around and I'm left unsupervised... ;)
In addition to the lowest price guarantee, I'm pretty sure that HD will still beat a price by 10%. That's huge on a big ticket item. A few years ago, I bought a Cub Cadet rider. 1,599 at HD. 1,499 sale at Tractor Supply. Got the mower at HD for 1,350.
is it still running?, I bought two NEW cub cadet mowers at around $1,700. each both blew the headgasket within 4 mow's of my yard....when I called for warranty work they repeatedly hung up on me....I might understand that if I was rude but I wasnt and they still hung up on me. I had other issues like parts completely falling off the mower on the first mow etc etc I will NEVER EVER buy another Cub Cadet. I went with a Bad Boy and have been very happy with it
Some stores starting to get fussy on those though and will only match the price if it is a sale price. I have had to fight on that point a few times.
@@BillyBlaze7 Sorry to hear that. I'm starting on year 6 with no problems.
@@psu7276 sounds like you won the mower lottery lol When i took the last one in to get fixed there were 15 brand new cubs just like mine sitting in the service yard waiting on repair. That was the point I threw up hands and said no more. I suggest you put a ball valve on your fuel line and cut off fuel to your carb when not in use. One of the things that happened to me is the fuel (even with Stabil) clogged the carb needle seats and allowed fuel to fill the entire engine and push all the oil out past the gaskets.
I cranked up the mower and it was slinging oil everywhere ( that was the first one before the head gasket blew on around the third mow. also keep an eye on your spindles and belt retainers. You can take the spindles apart and add (functional) zerk fittings to grease them and they will last longer and stay put together. Hope you continue to have good luck man.
Remember to tip the loaders
Damaged Sheetrocks sheet have 50% off...
At least at my Home Depot in Québec, Canada
Open bags of, let's say rocks or dirt also get 50% off...
BUT you have to ask otherwise they won't say a thing and give it!
Fyi, you don't have to be a contractor to get a Pro Xtra Loyalty card/membership. Service desk lady kindly told me that when I was making a large purchase. Now I get $$ rewards when buying things for my own personal needs.
Veterans get 10% off almost all items. Register your phone number and enter it during check out.
One other thing that you missed, which is why I go to Home Depot instead of Lowes. They give a 10% discount for veterans. And if you are registered with them, you even automatically get it discounted online.
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lowes does the same thing
I paid more for cull lumber, then it cost new. They took 16' lumber, then cut them in half. but the lumber in question, is 3x more at 16', then it is at 8'. So, I paid More then the lumber off the shelf. I brought it back, and literally, didnt want to shop in the store again.
7:12, some peoples are courageous...
If you have cuts done with the panel saw make sure and check the first cut. My experiences they normally do not cut straight and square.
you in virginia?
It feels like its been years since I went to a HD that actually had their saws working...I think they just say out of order these days just to not do it anymore
What's with the lowes badges with Home Depot tags on the front. Lowes never fails to disappoint.
those are the badges from the kids crafts. my kids collect both lowes and home depot ones
What's the $.02 meaning? Better than $.03? @4:52 there was a john deere 42" "something" for $15.02
I believe it just means 2 weeks until the product is removed from shelves. They are rarer to find as they usually stop at 3
Hey 😌😌
they do charge like a dollar less for each cut on lumbers like few years ago.
I’ve never had to pay for a cut
I just got the 10 miter saw for 200
Not once have I seen a discount rack and I go there twice a week
Price match upc must match exactly. Products might look the same but upc is different no price match. Personally I’ve Lowes and Home Drpot prices the same, unless i’m Buying hundreds of dollars of materials it’s not worth the time to save a couple or three dollars.
Electronics stores used to do that. The same manufacturer would have different model numbers on virtually identical stereos and TVs etc. for different retailers.
yeah clearance section isnt even discounted most of the time. just looking for suckers to think theyre getting a deal. They should call it what it is DISCONTINUED !!! Last chance to pay full price.
So a price of $6 on something that was originally $12 is a 50% off sale? You don’t say?
FYI They will not price match not even another Home Depot nor any other competor nor internet i needed 5 smart locks and went to one store and they had 1 and had lowered pricing and i bought the 1 and they told me another store had the other 4 so i drove there and they would not match price even though i had the receipt to show them and the manager told me they did not match anybodys price even another home depot nor Home Depot online nor anybody period.
Adding one more...damaged box discount..yes! Up to 10% off. I bought a toilet recently and selected the one with a beat up damaged box and asked for the discount and got it. If parts are missing they will accept the return.
This sounds a lot like Chris Fix
everything in this video I already know about except for the three cents at the end of the pricing I'll check it out thank you also damaged open bags cement grout Etc discounted 50% or more unless you get a real douchebag that doesn't want to give any discount it does not hurt to ask if you see an item like this that is not marked
Thank man
Are you also chrisfix
Why you goin to lowes for dadurday in a home depo video
Don’t be an ass who buys 5 8 foot 2x4s and wants them cut into 10.5 inch sections. Like do you want us to come over when we get off and put the project together for you too😂😂
Also if you want help loading mulch help out as well. Don’t just sit in your truck and let the employees hand load 40 bags in bed.
Tip for transporting 4x8 sheet. Get a minivan instead of a truck.
Is this Chris Fix?
It does sound like him
None of this happens in busy areas. No frees, and they make sure to throw away anything cheap and used tools
Um I’m a single mom who does most of the repairs and fixing or building things why is it Dads need to know these things oh that’s right because us smart woman already know everything!😂😂😂😂
They have a Daderday. What about Mommerday? 😃
go for it!
Yep, females don't need RUclips, books or anything to help them figure something out because they already know everything
Understand, but most are Dad. 😊